Here was a superb opportunity to let the wide world know what had been done, and fortunately Hubbard was one of the Centennial Commissioners.

By his influence a small table was placed in the Department of Education, in a narrow space between a stairway and a wall, and on this table was deposited the first of the telephones.
Bell had no intention of going to the Centennial himself.

He was too poor.

Sanders and Hubbard had never done more than pay his room-rent and the expense of his experiments.

For his three or four years of inventing he had received nothing as yet--nothing but his patent.